AP Psychology Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a cell that makes up the nervous system
  2. 4. A layer of fat that makes the axon work faster
  3. 7. study an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
  4. 11. A certain point that after it is reached, the neuron will fire
  5. 15. the focus on the current environmental effects on a person's growth potential
  6. 16. An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
  7. 17. an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations
  8. 18. the science of behavior and mental processes
  9. 19. the long part of the neuron that sends the message
  10. 20. A neuron's bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
Down
  1. 1. observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
  2. 2. study of mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
  3. 5. school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function and how these enable us to adapt
  4. 6. view that psychology is an objective science that can only observe behavior
  5. 8. the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
  6. 9. The message that the axon sends
  7. 10. all the cases in a group, from which samples may be drawn for a study
  8. 12. neurotransmitters that control pain and pleasure
  9. 13. a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
  10. 14. A neurotransmitter getting absorbed by its' neuron